Honoring Grief: Community, Ritual and Resilience
Fri, May 03
|Asheville
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is an award-winning, internationally-acclaimed learning community dedicated to promoting lifelong learning, leadership, community service, and research. I am excited to partner with them and with colleagues from Mission Hospital for this presentation!
Time & Location
May 03, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Asheville, 1 University Heights, Asheville, NC 28804, USA
About the event
Friday, May 3, 2 p.m. | Manheimer Room (Reuter 102)
The Life Transitions Committee at OLLI at UNC Asheville is pleased to present Honoring Grief: Community, Ritual and Resilience. As we age, we tend to experience more loss, but we don’t necessarily ever get used to managing grief. In this program offered as part of OLLI's life transitions curriculum, five local psychotherapists (four oncology social workers and one holder of a doctorate in psychology) will share their knowledge and experience working with people facing many different forms of and responses to grief. Using a combination of lecture and small group discussion, these experts will guide participants in ways to take care of themselves and one another in times of pain and transition, including a review of rituals used to offer comfort and closure after loss. Join with fellow OLLI members to honor the universal experience of grief, loss and the potential for healing that occurs in…